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Jon Bloom

Jon Bloom (@Bloom_Jon) is president of Desiring God and author of Not by Sight and the forthcoming Things Not Seen. He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife, Pam, their five children, and one naughty dog.

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Most people want their lives to count for something. Something deep inside them wants to make some kind of difference in the world, to leave a mark, a lasting legacy. It is a longing for significance to do something “great.”

How is your faith for evangelism? Too frequently mine is too small. I hate that sin of unbelief and having just spent a few days with some joyful, bold, fruitful evangelists, I am freshly encouraged to fight it.

Into this horrible, humanly impossible famine God sends preachers — preachers in pulpits, on street corners, at the family table, in living rooms and hospitals and Bible studies and prisons.
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Prayerlessness is not fundamentally a discipline problem. At root it’s a faith problem. Prayer is the native language of faith. John Calvin called prayer the “chief exercise of faith.”
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This Book enlightens and confounds, humbles and encourages me. It has more wisdom in it than can possibly be mined in a lifetime. It speaks to me in the things that it explicitly says, and also in what it doesn’t say...
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There were imaginative flickers of Middle-earth in the precocious child, Ronald Tolkien. Enchanting English landscapes, a language invented with a young cousin for kicks, an awakening love of mythology, especially of the northern and Germanic variety, and a local doctor…

Jesus often has harvests for us where we least expect them. Be careful not to assume that the real harvest is up the road and where you are is merely a rest stop or a frustrating, delaying detour.
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Giving the gift of encouragement is not easy. It will likely add to our seasonal stress because it is spiritual warfare. If we’re going to encourage anyone else, we have to fight Satan and our own sin to do it.
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All of us sinners are Narcissistic to some degree. But the enchanting power that mirrors have over most of us is different from Narcissus. When we look into a mirror most of us are not captivated by our beauty, we are condemned by our defects.
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